A schoolchild should be taught grammar - for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.

Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays

Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.